AllAfrica News: Burkina Faso

[MFWA] This report examines the state of press freedom and freedom of expression in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Guinea, four West African countries under military-led governments that have experienced coups since 2021.

[Daily Trust] Coach Abdul Maikaba has blamed Nigeria's Flying Eagles' heavy 4-1 defeat to Burkina Faso in the final of the 2026 WAFU Zone B U-20 Championship on the three early goals conceded by his side.

[Premium Times] It was a tough afternoon for the defending champions, who were undone by a blistering first-half display from the Young Stallions.

[IPS] London -- Burkina Faso's charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should 'forget about the question of democracy' because 'democracy isn't for us'. When Traoré seized power in September 2022, ousting a leader who'd staged a coup earlier that year, he promised elections by June 2024. The junta ...

[Scrolla] Thembi Kgatlana's first-half goal was enough to send defending champions South Africa into the quarter-finals of the CAF Women's Africa Cup of Nations.